Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an...
Symantec Corp. is shipping its Gateway Security 5600 Series of multi-function network security appliances designed to proactively protect against blended computer virus and worm threats. "We shipped our first unit yesterday
Domain pay-per-click advertising services have come under siege from digital attackers, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks disrupting advertising on hundreds of thousands of parked domains. The attacks in the past week have...
IBM will ship next month software to provide what’s called "continuous data protection" for end users. Meanwhile, competition in that space is heating up as Veritas prepares to enter the fray with its own offering...
Microsoft has revealed that anti-phishing features would be made available to Internet Explorer 6 users through an update to the company's MSN Toolbar. The feature is also slated to appear in the final release of Internet Explorer 7...
IBM revealed that it had developed new technology that will protect information stored on laptops and servers from viruses, file corruption or deletion. The software would make it unnecessary to schedule backups, as the process occurs...
Almost everything about the Zobot worm has played out like a regular computer security crisis on fast forward. From the emergence of a series of worms within days of a Microsoft patch to Microsoft's release of workarounds and a removal...
McAfee on Wednesday announced that its Virex anti-virus software would now support Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." The program is aimed at the business community to help prevent the spread of Windows worms and viruses. Although there still is no...
The plug-and-play vulnerability that caused havoc for Windows 2000 users last week also holds a serious risk for some Windows XP users, Microsoft said Tuesday. Computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 in a specific configuration are...
A total of 14,135 unique phishing campaigns were reported in July, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. That is down from 15,050 a month earlier, the group said in a report Tuesday. In phishing attacks, fraudulent Web sites are used to..
Symantec, creator of the popular antivirus software Norton, purchased security firm Sygate earlier this week in a deal that will add to the software maker's already impressive line of acquisitions in the past year. Financial terms of...
Vispa Internet has become the latest UK ISP to be targeted by a 'Denial of Service' (DOS) attack, which bombarded the provider’s core network with a 215Mbps stream of data. The DOS attack started at around 09:40 this morning and caused a number of...
It was a Friday afternoon for the computer encryption folks at RSA Security Inc., and summertime greenery filled the countryside view from Art Coviello's office. Even so, the RSA chief could have been excused if he didn't seem relaxed...
Apple Patches for Tiger and Panther Apple has patched a number of security holes in its Panther and Tiger flavors of Mac OS X in its latest security update. More than 40 separate vulnerabilities are addressed in the four patches...
McAfee produces Home Wi-Fi Security Tool McAfee is set to launch a software product for securing home wireless routers. The Wireless Home Network Security software is designed to keep intruders -- either malicious "war drivers" or...
The announcement of new security flaws by Microsoft for its Windows software has apparently spawned a new virus that allows attackers to take complete control of a user's computer. The ZOTOB virus appeared shortly after Microsoft warned of...
Veritas has patched the zero-day vulnerability in its Backup Exec software two days after the bug first surfaced. According to Symantec, a logic bug in the backup software could be exploited to bypass authentication, and let an attacker...
A new variant of Mac OS X for Intel began surfacing on Internet sites early Thursday, boasting the ability to run on any x86 based computer. The leak has apparently been cracked to bypass the protections that prevent Apple's development kits...
Microsoft warned users of its Windows operating system on Tuesday of three newly found "critical" security flaws in its software, including one that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer. Microsoft issued patches...
Microsoft 's experimental Honeymonkey project has found almost 750 Web pages that attempt to load malicious code onto visitors' computers and detected an attack using a vulnerability that had not been publicly disclosed, the software giant...
